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Everyone thinks the Fed prints endless money. So why does the world keep running short of dollars? Because what the Fed actually creates is not the money the world uses. It creates bank reserves. Those are not real money. They are limited-use tokens that only work inside the interbank...

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🚨🇺🇸 The institution everyone blames for inflation can't even create money that means anything on its own. Jeffrey Snider just explained the limits of the Federal Reserve. "The best that the Federal Reserve can do is create bank reserves and hope it somehow influences bank behavior, because commercial banks are the ones who own these bank reserves. Unless commercial banks do something in response to whatever operation the Federal Reserve is undertaking, then it doesn't matter, the Federal Reserve is just moving stuff around from one pocket to another. They're not actually creating useful money in the outside system." Jeffrey P. Snider
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🚨🇺🇸 The institution everyone blames for inflation can't even create money that means anything on its own. Jeffrey Snider just explained the limits of the Federal Reserve. "The best that the Federal Reserve can do is create bank reserves and hope it somehow influences bank behavior, because commercial banks are the ones who own these bank reserves. Unless commercial banks do something in response to whatever operation the Federal Reserve is undertaking, then it doesn't matter, the Federal Reserve is just moving stuff around from one pocket to another. They're not actually creating useful money in the outside system." Jeffrey P. Snider

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Because the main point of central bank digital currency from the surveillance and control aspect is that we will all need digital identity in order to access our digital wallets, which will contain the currency and the currency and the wallets and our, digital identities will all be programmable so conditions can be set on everything that we do. "Every transaction we make will be subject to condition through some sort of smart contract probably, which will control it. Right. So you know, if you say the wrong thing or you know, you, you just write the wrong thing online, you could be punished by algorithm by controlling your access to money... "And so the key to that is central bank— the programmability of central bank digital currency. But obviously that's not going to, may not work. There's a good chance that won't work in the United States which has got the US dollar reserve is an important currency. "So what are you going to do? So stablecoins and things like deposit tokens or tokenized deposits are variations of programmable digital currency. But rather than being issued by a central bank, they're issued by a commercial bank. So or in the case of stablecoins, a non-bank, a non-bank institution like Tether. So it's not a bank. "But you can use stablecoins for exactly the same. They slot into the system of programmability just as easily, if not more so than a central bank digital currency. So you can attach smart contracts to any kind of digital transaction using digital currency. Programmable digital currency and stablecoins do exactly the same thing, serve the same purpose as central bank digital currency or the other version, the commercial bank version is deposit tokens. Any of those will do. "Now in the US they've gone down the stablecoin route so they can issue the stablecoins which will be backed by US Treasuries, just like the dollar or just like any kind of dollar instrument will be one to one convertible for the US dollar. So the stablecoins are effectively the US dollar in, in digital form. "But instead of calling it a central bank digital currency, they call it issued by, it wouldn't have to be issued by the Fed. They call it a stablecoin, which is issued by a company like Tether or you know, someone like that. So it's the same system but using a workaround. And that workaround came with the Genius Act which, which came from an executive order that Trump made when he first came to office. "Because the Americans, quite rightly when they were electing their president, were concerned about central bank digital currency. I mean anyone that understands what it is should be terrified of it. So they didn't want it, and Trump promised that they wouldn't have it. Probably. 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